Your First Pull Request
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Claims concrete: 300 pull requests submitted, about 68 to Laravel, roughly half not merged; demonstrations use GitHub Desktop, PHPStorm, and project formatters like pint or phpcs fixer. Walks through forking, create a new branch, adding a small string helper, copying nearby docblock style, and writing tests before opening the PR. Advice focuses on tiny, staged changes, avoiding accidental large diffs, timing breaking changes, and being generous by running formatters and add tests so maintainers can merge quickly.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Why open source matters
- 4:45Aristotle’s virtues and open source
- 6:15Courage facing rejection
- 7:18Moderation and small PRs
- 10:24Generosity and maintainer time
- 13:37Magnanimity and ego
- 15:23Practical wisdom from experience
- 17:30Contemplation and codebase
- 19:57Step-by-step first PR
- 28:38Encouragement and first step
- 30:02Q&A
